Experimental generation of squeezed cat states with an operation allowing iterative growth

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 19, 2015, Pages

  Etesse, Jean ^a   Bouillard, Martin ^a   Kanseri, Bhaskar ^a   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^a,b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CAT STATE; FOCK STATE; HOMODYNE MEASUREMENTS; HYBRID OPERATIONS; MESOSCOPIC STATE; OUTPUT STATE; SINGLE PHOTON FOCK STATE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84930216461     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.193602     Document Type: Article

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